MAXIMUM JOY presents

WHITE NOISE
BMUSIC + BROADCAST (DJ Set)
POLLY FIBRE

SUGAR CLUB, LEESON STREET
26th OCTOBER
7:30pm til late
Adm: €15

Tickets available from Tickets.ie, Road Records and City Discs

www.tickets.ie
www.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub


WHITE NOISE

White Noise are an electronic music band formed in London, England in 1969 by American born David Vorhaus. A classical bass player with a background in both physics and electronic engineering. He was initially joined by BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson, both ex of electronic music project Unit Delta Plus. David continues to release records under the name and will be performing on the night with master synth musician Mark Jenkins. This is a super rare performance of this unique and amazing album, and a stable love in chez Maximum Joy. Not to be missed!!

About 'An Electric Storm' (1969)

"MANY SOUNDS HAVE NEVER BEEN HEARD – BY HUMANS: SOME SOUND WAVES YOU DON'T HEAR – BUT THEY REACH YOU. 'STORM STEREO' TECHNIQUES COMBINE SINGERS, INSTRUMENTALISTS AND COMPLEX ELECTRONIC SOUND. THE EMOTIONAL INTENSITY IS AT A MAXIMUM"

This is the introduction on the sleeve to what can only describe as one of the freakiest, most frightening, far-out and forward thinking albums you may ever get to hear.

In 1968 White Noise was one of the first all electronic groups ever. They released the groundbreaking album An Electric Storm on Island Records in 1969 with no interviews or gigs. A record for electronic, psyche, library, kraut heads and a must for all fans of far out music. The album was created using a variety of tape manipulation techniques, and is notable for its early use of the first British synthesizer, the EMS VCS3. David Vorhous met and was inspired to create his own ideas by the UDP pair at one of their lectures to promote the use of electronic music in film, television and advertising.

Here's an extract from a Unit Delta Plus program of the time providing a vivid explanation of the early electronic music making process.

Electronic music is made by recording onto magnetic tape, electronically produced oscillations, which when played from the tape, are heard through a loudspeaker as sounds. There is complete control over all musical parameters such as pitch, timbre (harmonic content), loudness, duration, echo, musical scale if any, and so on. Even after these choices are made there is control over the filtering, switching, and even over the probability (in a mathematical sense) of any or all of these parameters occurring. At times voices or other naturally occurring sounds are used in conjunction with electronic ones. The end product is a tape which is played on a tape recorder (or several tapes and tape recorders) the sounds are heard from loudspeakers. This is the performance and there is never an earlier stage when the competed work is heard live. In this way there is a radical difference between a concert of electronic music and a performance given by live musicians.

Although not initially commercially successful for Island, word of mouth over many years helped this album eventually sell tens of thousands of records. Like stable-mates Art and Nirvana, this album remained on catalogue deep into the seventies.

It has over the years proved to be a cult classic, name checked by such contemporary artists as The Orb and Julian Cope, as well as providing a major influence on contemporary acts like Stereolab, Broadcast, Add N to (X) and Luke Vibert.

www.myspace.com/whiteunderscorenoise

BROADCAST (DJ Set)

Birmingham's Broadcast have over the course of 4 albums and 12 years created some of the most distinctive and esoteric music of the last 20 years.

Musique Concrete, free jazz, analog electronic wizardry and a minimalist pop sensibility are an unlikely mix. Yet Broadcast combine these with ethereal vocals to create dark folk compositions steeped in mystery. It has been said that they 'transmit radiophonic psychedelia' and indeed they are often compared to 60s electronic pop pioneers 'The United States of America' and 'White Noise'.

Also it is little wonder that they cite early 70s Czech new wave film 'Valerie and her week of wonders' as an influence, as this fairy tale steeped in mystery and odes to the subconscious, is like a visual counterpoint to the Broadcast sound.

With such a nuanced appreciation of what has gone before, the most amazing thing is how effortlessly Broadcast transcend their influences, in the process creating a sound that is rich in history but ultimately and unmistakably their own.

They will be sharing some of their favourite music at the Sugar Club along with B-Music regulars Andy Votel & Dom Thomas.

"Broadcast are not the kind of group who bash you over the head with some coarse gimmick. Haha Sound (2002) steals into your mind, gently drenches it with found sounds and the sweetest melodies. like cindy sherman's self-portraits, they are beautiful and unsettling - hints of ancient folk song dipped in a world of echo." - Bob Stanley (St Etienne)

www.myspace.com/broadcastuk



B-MUSIC COLLECTIVE

B-Music is an independent collective of DJs, musicians and music lovers dedicated to the obsessive and painstaking pursual of obscure, obsolete, exquisitely obnoxious, unbelievable, underexposed and undeniably delectable discs of experimental pop music from the psyched-out sixties and seventies.

B-Music.co.uk provides a pocket library for discerning aficionados of fascinating rhythms from six times around the globe - unifying record collectors, beat diggers, fanatics of the avant-garde and trash-merchants alike.

Centred around the Mancunian eponymous travelling club and bar night - hosted by Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve) and Dominic Thomas - and along with twin record labels Finders Keepers and Delay 68, B-Music represents a passionate, un-blinkered approach to the culmination of way-out sounds encompassing all elements of off-kilter counter-culture: Psych Prog Space Rock Ye-Ye Euro Beat Folk Funk Jazz and Whacked Out Movie Musak, as well as cherry pickings of bugged-out cinema, design and literature in token doses.

www.b-music.co.uk



POLLY FIBRE

POLLYFIBRE is a girlband from a future post-digital dimension that uses the language of fashion to investigate fashions of language. Dressmaking tools are adapted into crude sonic instruments and used to deconstruct words and symbols of the creative industries that currently dominate our sensibilities. It may be very p or it may be very very f...

Started by Christine Ellison in 2005 the line up now also includes Lucyanna Moore and Laura Hyland. They love and work in London and have performed in Berlin, New York, and Kaunas (Lithuania) as well as in the UK and Ireland. They are currently the most successful sonic-sewing act of the 21st century.

www.myspace.com/pollyfibre